Combined shirt and cravat.



PATENTED JAN. 17, 1905.

Gr. W. SHBGKBLLS. COMBINED SHIRT AND GRAVAT.

APIPLIOATION FILED APB.. 5. 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented January 17, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

COMBINED SHIRT AND CFAVAT..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. r780,237', datedJanuary 17, 1905.

Application filed April5,1904:. Serial No. 201,663.

To all whom, 7525777114/ cm1/cern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. SI-IECKELLS, of the oity of Baltimore andState of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in a CombinedShirt and Cravat, of which the following is a specific-ation.

Figure l is an exterior front view of the upper part of what isgenerally known as a neglige shirt provided with a oravat after themanner of the presentinvention and showing the cravat before it is tied.Fig. 2 is a View similar to Fig. l, except that the oravat is shown astied.

Referring' now to the drawings, l is the bosom, 2 the neolband, and 3the collar.

The oravat consists of two strips 5 and 7 of suitable material, the one,5, being sewed to the upper edge of the overlapped portion of the bosoml centrally of the opening 6 between the end of the collar andextending, when straightened, in a vertical direction, as shown in Fig.1.

Zontally to the overlapped portion of the neekband 2, as shown in Fig.l. The strip 5 is provided with a buttonhole 9 near its end or in suehposition that when the said strip is turned down in the tying operation,hereinafter described, it will register with the button l0, as shown inFig. 2 in dotted line.

The strip 7 is sewed hori- The overlapped portion of the bosom near toand under the upper button 12 is provided with a slot 13 of suoli sizeas will admit of the strip 5 being' easily passed through it in thetying' operation.

The eravat is tied after the neolband is buttoned, and to effect theappearance of a bow the strip 7 is folded twice upon itself and while itis held in a folded condition the strip 5 is brought down tightly overit and passed through the slot 13 and buttoned.

1 claim as my invention- In a shirt, the open bosom thereof providedwith a slot near its upper end, oombined with a eravat formed of twoseparate strips, one of the said strips being sewed vertioally to theoverlapped portion of the bosom, and adapted to be turned down andinserted through the slot in the bosom, and the other fastenedhorizontally to the overlapped part of the neokband, and adapted to befolded twice upon itself, and crossed by the vertical strip before thesame is inserted in the said slot, substantially as, and for the purposespecified.

GEO. W. SHEOKELLS. Witnesses:

OREGON MILTON DENNIS, A. O. Barner.

